The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Nefertiti Asanti
“…each month I embrace a kind of death within my womb that offers me a life I can live with.”
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Freedom Knows Who We Are: Talking with Kelly Harris-DeBerry
Kelly Harris-DeBerry discusses her debut poetry collection, FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME.
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Others Would Tell Me Nothing Is Mine: Talking with Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes discusses her new collection, LETTERS TO A YOUNG BROWN GIRL.
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Building and Building: Talking with Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones discusses her body of work, the future of poetry, and more.
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Equal Rights Never Go out of Style: Talking with Monica Prince
Monica Prince discusses writing, advocacy, and the art of the choreopoem.
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Revolutionary Anger: Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad
The most important idea within the book is that our anger, in all its shapes, is justified.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Feminism
We here at The Rumpus matriarchy are celebrating all of our feminist “mothers” this Mother’s Day!
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Tara Betts
Tara Betts discusses her newest collection, Break the Habit, the burden placed on black women artists to be both artist and activist, and why writing is rooted in identity.
...more“What if poetry isn’t enough?” – Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange, the poet, author and playwright who is mostly known for her play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” is at it again with, “Lost in Language and Sound: Or How I Found My Way to the Arts,” which had its first reading at Nuyorican Poets Café a couple […]
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